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From: David Greaves <david@dgreaves.com>
To: linux-raid@vger.kernel.org, mlaks@post.harvard.edu
Subject: Re: how to create a degraded raid1 with only 1 of 2 drives ??
Date: Sun, 20 Jan 2008 21:38:45 +0000	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <4793BF65.3030002@dgreaves.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <20080120195253.GA11393@earthlink.net>

Mitchell Laks wrote:
> I think my error was that maybe I did not
> do write the fdisk changes to the drive with 
> fdisk w

No - your problem was that you needed to use the literal word "missing"
like you did this time:
> mdadm -C /dev/md0 --level=2 -n2 /dev/sda1 missing

[however, this time you also asked for a RAID2 (--level=2) which I doubt would work]

David

  reply	other threads:[~2008-01-20 21:38 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 5+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2008-01-20 19:28 how to create a degraded raid1 with only 1 of 2 drives ?? Mitchell Laks
2008-01-20 19:34 ` michael
2008-01-20 19:52 ` Mitchell Laks
2008-01-20 21:38   ` David Greaves [this message]
2008-01-20 22:12 ` Bill Davidsen

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